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@article{AndrewsHanna2007MeridianiPA, title={Meridiani Planum and the global hydrology of Mars}, author={Jeffrey C. Andrews‐Hanna and Roger J. Phillips and Maria T. Zuber}, journal={Nature}, year={2007}, volume={446}, pages={163-166}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4428510} }
It is demonstrated that Meridiani is one of the few regions of currently exposed ancient crust predicted to have experienced significant groundwater upwelling and evaporation, and the evaporite formation coincided with a transition to more arid conditions that increased the relative impact of a deep-seated, global-scale hydrology on the surface evolution.